Guaranteed wage plans seen unlikely to surge unions yet
The Nation Today reports on guaranteed wage plans where employers promise wages for set periods. Only 61,000 workers are covered across 196 plans, mostly in firms under 50 employees and heavy manufacturing. Most plans are in New York and Chicago industrial areas, with about 40 percent in manufacturing amid seasonal work, and unions still present in 130 of the bargaining arrangements.
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Truman
Labor Department
Puys the Bulletin
New York
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Florell Hats Garbo as Psychological Stylist in New York
Walter Florell, a famed milliner, explains his method and boasts of clients from socialites to Joan Crawford. He recounts Garbo’s visit, her designer clash, and a $5 bet won after predicting her choice of roses in his studio.
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New York
Ormand
Walter Florell
Greta Garbo
Florell
America
John Frederics
Lilly Cache
Walter
Fforell
Garbo
Blazes
Park Ave
Merry Widow
Viscount the Turtle
War changes Lex and strains engagement with Kay
Lex returns from service with a clarified view of life preferring a country calm over city bustle. Kay, though loving, resists leaving their planned suburban life for farming and pasture. Sherry suggests Kay visit Steve and Aunt Pen to see a different world, but Kay refuses, leaving Lex torn between love and desire for change.
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Kay
Lex
England
France
Sherry
Steve
Aunt Pen
Farm Life Deepens Sherry Links With Lex and Steve
Sherry grows attached to farm work and its men Steve and Lex, embracing country life and its philosophy. She helps Aunt Pen, learns from Steve, and feels pride in becoming a farmer. A moonlight toboggan and square dance plan bring tentative joy before Kay’s absence weighs on Lex as their story continues.
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Kay
Palm Beach
Sherry
Lex
Pen
Ella Sherry
Aunt Pen
Steve
Jed Porter
Leda
Joe Pemberton
Robins Build Cozy Nest Beside Bedroom Window
A tiny spring tale notes Robins arrive early and select a pine tree next to a bedroom window. They quickly build a nest with string and mud, feed worms to hungry chicks, and endure unseasonable weather as the parents labor from dawn. The piece ends with Aesop like reflection that the other fellow seems luckier.
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Aesop
Return of Vittorio Orlando Signals Italy’s War-Ravaged Road
The 97 year old Vittorio Orlando, last surviving member of World War I’s Big Four, seeks to form a cabinet to govern Italy toward a stable peace. He notes many skilled leaders died in the war and urges a united, forward looking government to rebuild. The piece laments the loss of experienced statesmen and warns the war’s destruction of resources and people.
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Trély
Clemenseau
France
Lloyd George
Great Britain
Wilson
United States
Europe
Italy
Militarism and the Call for Global Confidence
A critique of militarism notes nineteen million men under arms. The world starves productive forces to armaments and fears drive arms races. Dorothy Thompson argues leaders must trust each other to preserve a civilized world and free humanity from perpetual defense anxieties.
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Dorothy Thompson Mients
Filial Affection Moves Truman With Visits to Mother
President Truman's frequent visits to his ailing mother are described as a natural, honest expression of character. Observers say such affectionate acts will be warmly applauded by the American public and are likely to win voter support.
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Truman
Strike Moratorium Keeps Hope For Peaceful Homes
The piece argues the steel strike moratorium offers greater hope for global peace and stable families than postwar politics, while criticizing plans for a world army and global policing as risky. It cautions that international missteps lead to war and seeks cautious experimentation.
Bible Thought for Today on trying God's word
A brief devotional note highlights that the best way to learn is by living God’s word. It cites a long record of success across centuries and references Samuel 22 1 expressing that God’s way is perfect and his word is proven reliable.
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God
On the Air SB Sunday Radio Schedules Report
Radio networks begin airing recorded jockey shows amid live talent, with MBS planning an hour five afternoons weekly led by Martin Block from Hollywood. schedule details include NBC CBS and ABC lineups across Saturday and Sunday with programs from Hit Parade to Crime Doctor and Burns and Allen.
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C. E. Butterfield
ABC
New York
MBS
Wee
Martin Block
Hollywood
KFWB
NBC
Foreign Policy
France
Martha Titton
Grand Ole Opry
CBS
Hank Larabee
Bill Good
Susan Hayward
Sweeney
March
Clare E. Hoffman
Chicago
Mlle
Modiste
Korn
Varus
American United
Bob Burns
Jack Benny
Fred Allen
Char, McCarthy
Rudy Wal- Tee
Lyman Bryson
CBE Symphony
Phil Spitalny
Kate Smith
Blondie
Tony Martin
Burns and Allen
We the
Rivesville Boy Drowns In Monongahela River
In Marion county, a 12 year old Rivesville boy Joseph Jimmie Jr died after a dive from a Paw Paw Greek bridge into the Monongahela river at May 24 in PAIRMONT. Rescuers found the body soon after. Dr. Joseph Romano declared death after unsuccessful resuscitation.
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Pairmont
Rivesville
Monongahela River
Paw Paw
Marion County
Joseph Jimmie, Jr
Joseph Jimmie
Joseph Romano
Four-Year Term For Martinsburg Man In Moose Club Robbery
Frederick Maryland May 24 Associate Circuit Judge Patrick M Schnauffer sentences Donald E Welty of Martinsburg West Virginia to not more than four years in the state reformatory for his part in the Brunswick Moose Club robbery on April 7.
Eskimos Rely On Coastal Life For Subsistence
Most Eskimos live near the coast where they draw much of their subsistence from the sea. The statement reflects traditional patterns of coastal communities relying on marine resources for food and livelihood.
Florence Nightingale and Crimean War Nursing Pioneer
Fragmentary notes describe Florence Nightingale as the founder of modern nursing for wartime care of the wounded during the Crimean War. Mentions a municipally owned project and Pueblo Grande in the United States near Phoenix with varied cotton bells in archaeological context.
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Florence Nightingale
Pueblo Grande
Phoenix
Boundaries and glory of ancient Greece and republic tenure
It occupies the southern Balkan peninsula with the Ionian to the west and Aegean to the east, Albania to the northwest, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. Greece's greatest power was in the fifth century B.C. The monarchy was overthrown in 1925, establishing a republic that lasted ten years.
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Greece
Balkans
Mediterranean Sea
Ionian Sea
Aegean Sea
Albania
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Turkey
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